Normally, I dont to the vanity thing, but I think this Glenn Beck Plan needs to be Freeper analyzed and dissected.

First let me say, Glenn Beck has done a great service to America and I really appreciate his Tea Party, patriotic events and leadership. I thought his TV program was fantastic. I enjoy listening to his serious radio discussions, but he and the gang get a little too rambunctious and off the wall at times. That said:

Did anyone else hear Beck this morning talking options for dealing with an Obama gun control and possible gun confiscation effort? What am I missing with this plan?

Frankly, Beck makes me a little nervous sometime with some of his rants, and this was one.

I was multitasking, reading FR, checking the market and halfheartedly listening to Beck in the background. At around 11:00 AM EST, Beck and crew are talking about Obama and the gun control gang and he starts talking about what to do if they begin actively confiscating guns. His planned for resistance to tyranny is to overwhelm the legal/prison the system. ??????????

As I understood Beck: If they come for your guns we should let them arrest all of us, and overwhelm the system. I guess he thinks the legal and penal system cant handle all of us if we do the MLK/Gandhi peaceful resistance technique. Kumbaya!!

Let me walk through what I think Beck was suggesting we do (as I understood him.)

BECK PLAN The Feds come to the door and ask about your gun possession. You admit you have them, but they cant have them. You affirm your 2nd Amendment rights and tell them to arrest you. We all do this and grind the legal system to a rapid halt. They cant arrest everyone can they? Beck says: To resist with force in numbers would guarantee that we lose. . He also says: To peacefully resist in mass, we win by breaking the system. .

Will this plan somehow ensure that law and order, respect for private property and the Constitution are miraculously re-established?

Let me propose an alternative theory on how this might work out in Realville and why Becks scenario fails if firearms owners are foolish enough to try this.

The Feds realize quickly that they cant fill up all the gulags with all the peaceful gun control resisters. So they change the collection technique.

I agree with your analysis of Beck’s idea. The gummint doesn’t have to imprison you to ruin your life, and that’s really what it’s all about: Ruining people who resist. High fines, lawyer costs, and paying through the nose for probation, in the end you are a felon so no good jobs for the rest of your life.

Beck can sometimes be a major league blowhard, and if he’s suggesting people actually do this, he’s being a dangerous-to-our-health blowhard as well. This is why I quit watching his TV show: I got tired of his constant drumbeat for a stampede of the population.

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posted on 01/10/2013 11:36:16 AM PST
by Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)

I don’t think Obama or any of his followers would say, “oh dear! We’re ruining people’s lives and bankrupting the country on this tyrannical path. Maybe we should follow the Constitution.” My guess is that they would celebrate every ruined life, every union prison guard position created, and and every innocent patriot behind bars who got raped by Bubba.

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posted on 01/10/2013 11:38:27 AM PST
by Pollster1
(Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)

If you are a well equipped and trained Patriot, Don’t go down with the first wave. Survive to fight another day. Hide, go underground and run.

Take your family, and run to a place that know one knows where you are. You can return to your home and property later.

Nothing is more important than keeping you alive. When they come for you, make sure they get an empty house.

The first wave of grabs will have an acceptable loss of 10 to 1 Enforcement. The plan is a large loss of life to get to you, the Patriot. The second wave has you taken from the equation, and are looking at far better results for their enforcement.

The idea is that they want the first wave of Enforcement to be killed . the vacuum created will filled by TSA and other “Civilian Army, just as powerful and equipped as the regular army”. These people will NOT be the LEO that we currently know. They will be jackbooted thugs.

It is so important for the equipped and trained Patriot to stay alive, to lead the country back to the Constitution, back to proper american government, and to a re-established currency that keeps global currency out of the American picture.

Well said. We have a duty as free people, created in the image of God, to resist tyranny by all means.

Furthermore, Beck's plan won't even work. Why would the tyrant's minions even bother to "process" us through today's criminal system?

I came across this quotation from The Gulag Archipelago yesterday.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more  we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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posted on 01/10/2013 11:43:30 AM PST
by Martin Tell
(ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it)

Are you kidding? He wouldn’t even stand up to defend his wife at a movie viewing in Bryant Park when leftwingers were dumping wine on her. Sorry, but if that’s happening to me, I don’t want a man who will “peacefully resist”. I want one with the guts to stand up for me (and mine would).

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posted on 01/10/2013 11:44:57 AM PST
by CatherineofAragon
(Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)

Between Freerepublic and Drudge, I feel we are under seige. Obama and his minions insult and disparage hard working, law abiding citizens every day. They refuse to give on spending, but take more and more. Now all this talk on gun control, gun confiscation, etc. Almost seems that O and his minions are pushing conservative Americans, perhaps hoping to provoke a disaster so they can take the guns and declare martial law. Perhaps this is what Glenn Beck fears. I hope no one falls for this. Although such a situation can be manufactured with a willing media.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more  we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Thank you!! That is intense and telling! I think we all need to memorize that and share it with friends and family. I'm saving the quote for future reference.

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posted on 01/10/2013 11:50:35 AM PST
by Perseverando
(Gun control? It's really not about gun control is it? It's really about PEOPLE CONTROL!)

#6 Yet again, well said! The Govt doesn't even have to haul anyone off to jail, just simply cuff them and remove all firearms for "investigation." It then becomes YOUR task retain counsel and attempt to go get them back, if they haven't been destroyed already and you get a subjective "fair market value" reimbursement for guns you can no longer legally replace.

Result: you've wasted time, you've expended money, and you have no guns.

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posted on 01/10/2013 11:55:40 AM PST
by DTogo
(High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)

Beck is an IDIOT!
The Jews didn’t fight back and went to the prisons....Then to the ovens....If the prisons get overcrowded, don’t think for a minute that the NWO wouldn’t do the same.
Go to prison and meanwhile your family become targets by liberals and criminals... When your 9 year old gets raped...The Obamanites will say they deserved it.. Just like the Germans said when the ovens were full...

And thank you. This is an excellent summation of the situation we may soon face and what our difficult response must be. And this quotation is genuine - I checked it. There are some bogus ("revised") quotes out there on the subject of resistance to tyranny purporting to have come from George Washington, Ben Franklin, etc. Please check out any quotes before sharing.

We can learn a lot from the Russian experience. There was an excellent article in Pravda the other day urging Americans not to abandon the Second Amendment. It gave as an example the experience of Moscow during the Revolution. There were a considerable number of retired and armed military in the city, and the Communists promised they would be sparred if they did not fight. They stayed on the sidelines and after the fighting was over they were systematically liquidated.

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posted on 01/10/2013 12:03:26 PM PST
by Martin Tell
(ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it)

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